تارة

Etymology 1
Of a little-developed root. is clearly denominal, and about even the Classical Arabic lexicographers have had little to say other than that it is obsolete, and as the examples of, ,  illustrate, the base stem too tends to be secondary in relation to a time word. In spite of not directly related to it but probably a borrowing from, compare 🇨🇬, rather than cognate to Arabic  or  (whence 🇨🇬) denominal from , which means this word is the same word as , figurative uses from drawing a line forth and back as times pass—compare also. Exactly the meanings are found in 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  a time

Etymology 2
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Adverb

 * 1) sometimes, once, at times